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Dad Shot w/Arrow For Grounding Kid

A Washington state man remained in serious condition after police said his 15-year-old daughter shot him with an arrow for taking her cell phone away.Police told ABC News the arrow struck the torso of the 35-year-old father, who was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.The Tahyua, Wash., man told police he had taken away his daughter's cell phone to discipline her, although police did not know why she'd been grounded. "He crawled out of a window of his house, and then he was able to crawl to a vehicle and drive to a neighbor's house. The closest neighbor was a third of a mile away," Mason County sheriff's spokesman William Adam told ABC News/KXLY. More here. (Wikipedia photo)

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D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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